SS Telfair Stockton

SS Telfair Stockton was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after Telfair Stockton, an American entrepreneur and developer in Jacksonville, Florida.

History
United States
Name: Telfair Stockton
Namesake: Telfair Stockton
Owner: War Shipping Administration (WSA)
Operator: R.A. Nichol & Company
Ordered: as type (EC2-S-C1) hull, MC hull 2507
Awarded: 23 April 1943
Builder: St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida[1]
Cost: $920.238,[2]
Yard number: 71
Way number: 5
Laid down: 24 October 1944
Launched: 23 November 1944
Completed: 30 November 1944
Identification:
Fate: Laid up in the, National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, California, 30 April 1946
Status: Sold for commercial use, 24 April 1947, removed from fleet, 29 May 1947
United States
Name:
  • Telfair Stockton (1947-1949)
  • Eugenie (1949-1956)
  • Transporter (1956)
Owner: Oro Navigation Co.
Operator: General Steamship Corp.
Fate: Sold, February 1956
Liberia
Name: Transporter
Owner:
  • Sea Freighter Corp. (1956-1959)
  • Jackson Steamship Co. (1959-1967)
Operator:
  • Polarus Steamship Co. (1956-1957)
  • Cargo Ships & Tankers Inc. (1957-1959)
  • Suwannee Steamship Co. (1959-1967)
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Fate: Sold, 1967
Liberia
Name: Zaneta II
Owner: Arger Navigation, Ltd.
Operator: Atlantic Shipping Co.
Status: Sold, 1968
Liberia
Name: Sfakia
Owner: Ivory Coast Transport Co.
Operator: Commodity Chartering Corp.
Fate: Scrapped, 1973
General characteristics [3]
Class and type:
Tonnage:
Displacement:
Length:
  • 441 feet 6 inches (135 m) oa
  • 416 feet (127 m) pp
  • 427 feet (130 m) lwl
Beam: 57 feet (17 m)
Draft: 27 ft 9.25 in (8.4646 m)
Installed power:
  • 2 × Oil fired 450 °F (232 °C) boilers, operating at 220 psi (1,500 kPa)
  • 2,500 hp (1,900 kW)
Propulsion:
  • 1 × triple-expansion steam engine,  (manufactured by General Machinery Corp., Hamilton, Ohio)
  • 1 × screw propeller
Speed: 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Capacity:
  • 562,608 cubic feet (15,931 m3) (grain)
  • 499,573 cubic feet (14,146 m3) (bale)
Complement:
Armament:

Construction

Telfair Stockton was laid down on 24 October 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2507, by the St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, Jacksonville, Florida; and was launched on 23 November 1944.[1][2]

History

She was allocated to the R.A. Nichol & Company, on 30 November 1944. On 30 April 1946, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, California. She was sold for commercial use, 24 April 1947, to Oro Navigation Co.. She was withdrawn from the fleet, 29 May 1947[4]

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References
  1. St. John's River SBC 2010.
  2. MARCOM.
  3. Davies 2004, p. 23.
  4. MARAD.

Bibliography
  • "St. John's River Shipbuilding, Jacksonville FL". www.ShipbuildingHistory.com. 16 October 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  • Maritime Administration. "Harald Torsvik". Ship History Database Vessel Status Card. U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  • Davies, James (May 2004). "Specifications (As-Built)" (PDF). p. 23. Retrieved 4 February 2020.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • "SS Telfair Stockton". Retrieved 4 February 2020.


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